Please Critique

[francisco_bal1]

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[henry_ting2]

Good composition. Not an easy picture to shoot given the condition. This shot requires quite a bit of thought to get it right. Definitely not the average instinctive shot.

[h._p.]

I can't say I like it. I don't like the contrast between the lamp and the rest of the image and it doesn't seem to me to illustrate anything interesting.

[wingell]

This is a challenging image. I'm bothered by the composition--too rigid? (maybe that's the word)-- but the colors, tones and lighting are evocative. Thanks for sharing--I hope to see more. Bill

[thomas_moraitis]

I think the lamp works against the balance of the composition and gives an unpleasant greenish tone to the light. With the lamp cropped and a bit of colour correction the photo can be attractive.

[Alex_Es]

As a composition this is quite good. It has an almost Aget feel to it. My only critique, which is not fair, is that it is not an interesting compostion. It feels like a student excerise. Well, okay: perhaps this is like a thumbnail sketch for a bolder work. There is nothing wrong with that.

 

Okay, this is what you can do. Great. Do something more with available light.

[travis1]

I am not sure if the light bulb adds to the picture. It's too bright for easy viewing. Crop off the bulb and you'd have a simple, more elegant picture.

 

2 cents anyway.

[francisco_bal1]

thank you guys for time you gave to this question cheers!

[lacey_smith4]

I find it marvelous -- a good lighting balance, and appears almost rigidly formal -- but the bench is not centered, balanced by the opposing partial picture. Very resting, and intriguing.

 

I would have cropped about 10-15% or so off the bottom -- leaving a good dark base, but balancing the light/door as two elements. harder to balance three (the large dark bottom space the third), as there is a tendency to pivot around the door frame, as it is now.

 

I do like it.